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DARKER DAYS

MashUp Tapes of Norwegian duo Smerz (Catharina Stoltenberg/Henriette Motzfeldt)

Listen to it....walking through the streets of Oslo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECNsiyjGBw&t=165s&ab_channel=MelancholicTuesday

Smerz

Electric Light (pj harvey)

For this episode of (x)=musik, Laura Not dives into female vocal folk music with a selection of classic, alternative and contemporary ballads sung by Linda Perhacs, Megan Sue Hicks, Keeley Forsyth, Joan Armatrading, Vashti Bunyan, Jessica Pratt, Nora Guthrie and more...

(x)=musik (22/06/2021) w/ Laura Not

Pre-order the Psychic 9-5 Club LP in The Ghostly Store:
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/htrk-psychic-9-5-club

HTRK - Give It Up

Written and Produced by james K
Mixed by Paul Corley
Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates and Mastering
Artwork by james K, Alex McCullough & Jen Shear

'Eiv Mude' is taken from james K's Random Girl LP
ORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/Digital: https://jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/album/random-girl
Out September 30, 2022
INC-016

‘Eiv Mude’ video directed by james K and Jaxon Whittington:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38jGOa58Aw8&ab_channel=JAMES%2aK

james K
@jamesk_1
www.james-k.com
www.instagram.com/___pet___
www.jameskmusic.bandcamp.com

Incienso
www.inciensorecs.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/inciensorecs
www.incienso.nyc

james K - Eiv Mude [INC-016]

HTRK – Body Lotion

Body Lotion is a collaboration between Belgium's Sleeperhold Publications, Australian duo HTRK and London-based artist David Ferrando Giraut. The three tracks on the record—"Sugar," "Punch" and the title track, "Body Lotion"—date back to the sessions that led to the band's 2011 album, Work (Work Work). For any HTRK fan, the opportunity to hear three unheard Work (Work Work)-era tracks is reason for both celebration and reflection. Two of the songs feature the unmistakable basslines of Sean Stewart, who died in 2010, before Work (Work Work) was released. 

Both "Sugar" and "Punch" were recorded live in HTRK's London rehearsal room, the then trio of Jonnine Standish, Nigel Lee-Yang and Sean Stewart. On "Sugar," Jonnine's voice smolders through smeared drums and Sean's bassline. "Punch" is spare and confessionary; "Body Lotion" is suggestive, winking and bruised, a trademark HTRK hook submerged beneath the murk. All three tracks mutated from the recording sessions that ultimately led to Work (Work Work) track "Slo Glo." While they all stand as striking individual songs, they share subtle elements in common—a lyrical idea here, some guitar parts there. 

David Ferrando Giraut's distinctive artwork adorns Body Lotion's sleeve and one side of the wax. (All three tracks feature on the record's A-side.) The Spanish artist has a deep and intimate connection to HTRK—he was living with Nigel in London at a time when Sean would visit to sketch out songs in Nigel's tiny room. They've collaborated before, too: Jonnine has narrated and appeared in some of his films, while Nigel has provided the music. Giraut's previous installations have often carried a musical lean—he's used LP covers and turntables in the past—and he's found a rich stream of creative inspiration in music's ability to create meaning and change in memory and behaviour.

This year has seen HTRK return with Psychic 9-5 Club, a bold and triumphant album, one that marked the beginning of a new era for Nigel and Jonnine. Body Lotion presents a beautiful, bittersweet glimpse into the recent past. 

About Sleeperhold Publications:

Sleeperhold is a Belgian-based publication platform. It's aim: to produce ten outputs, spanning different realms of the arts, and then cease to exist. Its current project is a run of ten vinyl records—HTRK's 12-inch follow previous efforts from Tropic Of Cancer, Moon Duo and Disappears. Before the vinyl series, Sleeperhold put out a photobook, a poster set, a deck of cards and short stories. They say: "There is no recurring theme, there is no recurring format, there is no recurring audience."

SHP #5.4: HTRK - Body Lotion

MashUp Tapes of the london based artist Roy Nnawuchi (aka Dean Blunt) 
Listen to it.....floating on Regent's Canal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8aD1Meqik&t=965s&ab_channel=MelancholicTuesday

Dean Blunt mix

Leoparden

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/visiblecloaks

Eastern-European folk music and its modern refractions - Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Czech Republic, former Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary.

- Liaudies Muzikos Teatro Trupė - Intakas
- Hamlet Gonashvili - Tsintskaro
- Ženklo Grupė - Ratas
- Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi - Jako Motýl Na Tvé Dlani
- Gjirokastra Folk Festival, Albania, 1988 (Artist Unknown) - Melodi Me Fyej, Dyjare, Zile E Imitues
- Folk Ensemble of Vilnius State University - Let the Hops Grow (Spring Sutartinė)
- Gordian Knot Company - Parijs
- Jieva Mockienė - Plauke pylele
- István Mártha - Templom (ft. Márta Sebestyén)
- Capella Antiqua E Moderna - Marnost Křídel
- Mtiebi Choir - Zamtaria
- Boris Kovač - Folk Prelude: Love Sick
- Miina Lambot & Anna Paalberg - Noorik lahkub isakodunt
- Oldřich Janota - Obrácený Vodotrysk
- Vízöntő - Amerikás Dal
- Veronika Povilionienė ir Petras Vyšniauskas - Vidury Laukų Grūšelė Auga
- Lola V. Stain - Rani Jadi
- Jievaras - Rimo Rimo, Tūtoj
- Dhurim Ballo, Sotir Ballo, Nazo Celaj, Trifon Golemi, Hyso Xhaferraj - We Live Among Strangers (text: Yona Friedman)
- Evaldas Vyčinas & Daiva Račiūnaitė - Ei, smūtna liūdna mano širdelė
- Kiri Uu - Ilus Neiu Kiigel
- Dezső Tandori, Cserepes - Miért Csináljuk
- Argo - Daina I

Blowing Up The Workshop

109 ◆ Visible Cloaks

~.~*~.~ (Spring)

Taken from Linha D'Água, out now on LP and digital:
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/linha-d-gua

A lucid dream meeting of synth waves, aquatic jazz spirits and drum-triggered electronics. ‘Linha D'Água’ translates as ‘water lines’, fitting for an album that traces boundaries between water and air through an echo chamber of dizzying oceanic layers and free flowing ideas.

Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas are two towering figures of the Brazilian underground/experimental scene, where they provide the rhythm section for demented genre-bending trio Rakta. While that band is all ritual percussion and red-blooded passion, as a duo they’re a blue-water flowing counterpoint. From the drums, Takara fires melodies and, with the synthesizer, Carla sculpts the sound. The result is caught somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. Each song’s an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sounds; teasing new rhythms from the drum kit via MIDI (and a near-telekinetic bond between Carla and Mauricio).

Hear More / Buy Now

M. Takara & Carla Boregas - Rosa de Areia

Immersion I & II

Not on Label
Digi & CD
Release on 9/4

Drums : Hikari Sakashita
Sax : Pueru Kim
Electronics : Kouhei Fukuzumi
Mixing & Mastering : Yui Kimijima
Recorded at Tsubame Studio, Tokyo, July 2020

Hikari Sakashita, Pueru Kim, Kouhei Fukuzumi - Immersion [Preview]

Hear all of Bunout Boss EP on Bandcamp: bit.ly/33MFQAr

Duppy Gun and Bokeh presents the huge debut statement from Okeme Robinson aka Gaza G Sudden, the second staple artiste in Duppy’s global dancehall project. Rolling with Duppy since 2013’s ‘Girls Dem Need Me’ debuted him into the world, G Sudden’s youth fire comes of age after lighting up the Portmore scene at Reggae Yard, Stop the Crime on Violence tour and Chopdawg Sundays.

Production comes from Richmond, BC (Canada via Manila) crew Seekersinternational who clashed with Duppy on 2019’s I Jahbar and Friends

G Sudden - Skin Get Bun

Nikolay Kozlov and Ben Bondy's nebulous collaboration exists somewhere between ambient and electro-acoustic experimentation.

'20 Segment' is out October 2nd.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3cAuIuD

@h09boi
@benbondy

Premiere: Nikolay Kozlov - Binary (feat. Ben Bondy)

Smurphy deconstructs rave tropes with a speed-freak mutation of dancehall and footwork.

'Spheres of Consciousness' is out October 29th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3kl0pez

@sssmurphy
@bokeh-versions

Esferas de Conciencia

Premiere: Smurphy - Instinct [Bokeh Versions]

CDMX Queen Smurphy releases her new Bokeh Versions EP "Spheres of Consciousness," flexing 5 ardkore x juke inspired helium neck-snappers transporting you to a higher states.The Spheres of Consciousness EP represents a rising up, an embracing of life. 
We’re lucky to be hearing from the NAAFI / Leaving Records affiliated, CDMX-based producer at all. She’d all but shelved music to focus on her health; suffering loss of mobility and chronic pain from a spinal birth defect (Spina Bifida Occulta). Until Smurphy came across breatharian literature about ‘living without food’.
There’s a deep link with rave’s central DNA - the dancefloor promise of reaching that higher state - and her ongoing health conditions. These five dancefloor destroyers are wordlessly encoded with the breatharian theory. Life goes though different levels of existence like a videogame, from the lowest level as hard minerals (‘Existence’), plant and fungi life resonates as ‘Growth’, animal life resonates as ‘Instinct’, human life runs on ‘Intellect’, the boss level is ‘Intuition’ - the highest non-material sphere. 
Clearly Smurphy is back, healthier than ever, and in control with collaborative dancehall productions with Duppy Gun artists coming in 2021, with more music and collabs to be announced.
Out October 30th. Follow the Buy link to purchase.

[PREMIERE] Smurphy- Intellect (Bokeh Versions)

Clyde Arcalis and Low Bat are together with Aki Gratte Ciel running the radio show named Yellow Light of Death on the Tbilissi based Mutant Radio. Clyde used to be the owner of a records store in Bordeaux named Oto Disques, while Low Bat, former booker of arkaoda Berlin, can be sometimes seen in tiny shorts and performing as front man of Jean-Luc.

https://soundcloud.com/nighttravelonablanketshow
https://soundcloud.com/clydearcalis

LAYER #248 | Low Bat & Clyde Arcalis

Paralaxe Editions is based in Barcelona, and Ylia (a.k.a. Susana Hernández) has long been one of the city's most well-regarded musicians. A classically trained pianist who came of age DJing breakbeat raves in Andalucia, she easily maneuvers between disparate scenes and styles; she's as comfortable dropping electro and techno records as she is performing alongside experimental flamenco artist Niño de Elche (she's a member of his touring band).

Following her appearances on labels such as Lapsus and Hivern Discs, Dulce Rendición is Ylia's first full-length effort, a cinematic collection of meditative and richly melodic tracks that largely grew out of her intimate live sets. Weaving together analog synths, field recordings and fragments of her own voice, much of the music was directly inspired by her dreams—and more specifically, the seemingly impossible sights and sounds that populated them. Working to recreate their lingering silhouettes in the light of day, Ylia oscillated between moments of deep introspection and playful fantasy as she settled into the hazy space between sleep and consciousness.

Music by Ylia.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.
Words by Shawn Reynaldo.

Dulce Rendición

YLIA - El Agua Original

Duppy Riddim excursion of all 4 mixes o Montegod Riddim (Smurphy Prod.)

Hear them all here:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/montegod-riddim

Mexico, Portmore, Jamaica, LA, Bristol: The Montegod Riddim pack is here! Featuring I Jahbar & RDL and the talent of two of Duppy Gun’s newest recruits: Prapastar and Any Voice. Nurtured by I Jahbar at his Chopdawg Sundays cookout / MC schooling, they bring in a new era of Duppy Gun talent rising from the ranks.

I Jahbar & RDL / Prapastar / Any Voice / Smurphy - Montegod Riddim Mix

A reworking of Atlas Air, from Massive Attack's Heligoland, out February 8, 2010

Atlas Air_Massive Attack_Sino Rework

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔